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Kolkata, October 15 (IANS) A court in West Bengal’s Durgapur on Wednesday sent the arrested male friend of a gang rape victim to seven-day police custody.
According to sources, when the accused male friend Wasif Ali was produced in the Durgapur court, no lawyer appeared on his behalf. As per Supreme Court rules, he was represented by a lawyer from the Durgapur Sub-Divisional Legal Aid Centre.
Meanwhile, the police have conducted DNA testing of the five people arrested earlier.
On Tuesday, Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Chaudhary said that only one person was involved in physical sexual assault.
He also said that the role of the victim’s male friend is also being investigated. Ali was arrested after investigators found inconsistencies in his answers during interrogation.
On Tuesday, the police took the arrested accused and the male friend to the forest area to reconstruct the crime scene.
A second-year medical student from Odisha was allegedly gang-raped by five men in a forest area outside a private medical college and hospital in Durgapur in West Burdwan district on Friday. Based on the complaint of the victim, the police had arrested all the five accused in the first case. He is currently in police custody. With the arrest of the male friend, a total of six people have been arrested in the gang rape case.
Meanwhile, according to hospital sources, the victim is now much better than before. She is slowly recovering and is in stable condition. On Tuesday, he recorded his statement before the judicial magistrate under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
Meanwhile, the victim’s father has demanded a CBI investigation into the case to quickly punish the culprits. He also expressed dissatisfaction over the investigation by Bengal Police.
–IANS
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